We admit it; it's unlikely-verging-on-impossible that Gaiman ripped off the 2006 indie graphic novel by Jason McNamara and Tony Talbot for the end of his two-part tribute to the Dark Knight (Who knows if he even knows that Continuity exists, despite its 40.000+ readership thanks to it being made available as a free download by the publisher pre-release?). We just thought it was odd to see such a similar end in both books. Apparently protagonists aren't the only things that have tendencies to be born again...